The Grass Is Greener

[Harv]

Rat -

It's only hard to pin me down 'cuz I'm leading a double life! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Most of the time I'm a mild-mannered computer geek in the San Francisco East Bay Area (Walnut Creek, to be exact). But a couple of weekends a month, I'm a power-crazed Kubota man maintaining the 42 acres where my mom is living, 10 miles outside of Sutter Creek, off of highway 49. Actual address up there is Volcano, if you're into small town name trivia. Couple of miles from Daffodil Hill.

As the crow flies, we're practically neighbors. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[FarmerBob]

Gee Harv... the names y'all got in California are almost as good as the ones we got here in Arkansas. Places like... Romance, Big Flat, Bald Knob, Ash Flat, Cotton Plant, Delight, Evening Shade, Pencil Bluff, Rose Bud, Gravel Ridge, and I could go on and on. But... my favorite is <font color=purple>Toad Suck</font color=purple> /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif... 'n that's the gospel truth! It's actually only about 25 miles from where I live. They even have an annual festival and attract a lot of visitors.

FarmerBob

 

[JATO_RaT]

Harv been there on my bike. Rode the loop from Jackson down to Volcano and then back. Thats why looking at the pictures it looked familiar I suppose. Great golf course out there called Castle Oaks in Ione for folks into golf. A good friend of mine lives near Mt Akum and another good friends mother has a vineyard near the Montevina vineyards. Another friend of mine lives in Pleasanton. Lots of family in the Bay area and then of course, Robert lives in Shingle Springs just due south of me. Rat...

 

[Jag]

FB, what about RedStar, Ozone, Pickels Gap, Possum Trot, Oil Trough, Blue Eye, Pitts, Cash, Greasy Corner, Y City, Vinity Corner, Hogeye and of course Ida and Mount Ida (Charlie Weaver's home).

 

[FarmerBob]

<sigh>... ain't we lucky Jag? /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif... we gotta live in the most colorful-named state in the union. And lets don't forget... Marked Tree, Moko, Marble Falls, Zinc, Yellville, Weiner, Widener, Old Joe, Ozone, Strawberry, Sweet Home, Smackover, Dogpatch, and Soddy Daisy. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I can't imagine me leaving out Pickles Gap. I've got a good friend who used to live there and now lives on a farm in Enola. He's the one got me started in raising Llewellin Setter bird dogs.

FarmerBob

 

[DFB]

You guys got some good ones for sure./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif All we got up here in ME are names like China, Denmark, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Of course there are other places too like Hay Shed, High Pasture, Grass Corner,
Pine Corner, Trout Brook, Muskrat Hollow, Owls Head, Moose Head, and Caribou./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

DFB

 

[FarmerBob]

/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif... well DFB... we got some of those names too... like England, Egypt, Greenland, Jerusalem, Jericho, Jordan, and Palestine /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

FarmerBob

 

[DFB]

Thanks for reminding me. We've got an Egypt too. No Palestine or Jordan, though there is a Promised Land.
Got a Moscow and Paris./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Also there's both a Dog Town and Dogtown. /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif.

DFB

 

[FarmerBob]

It would be interesting to know how the names came to be. Some of them are probably easy to figure out, but places like Toad Suck, Soddy Daisy, and Dog Town must have some pretty interesting stories behind them /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif.

FarmerBob

 

[JonLeonard]

Anybody ever heard of "Big Ugly, West Virginia"? It was mentioned on the Tonight Show when an article was published in the newpaper about a woman from there killing her husband. The article was titled "Big Ugly Woman Kills Husband"